/sisarli(ya)-/, si-sà+ra/i-li-
‘worshipper (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3841
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sisarli(ya)-/, si-sà+ra/i-li-
‘worshipper (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /sisarlin/ | si-sà+ra/i-li-na | HİSARCIK 1, §5 (Tabal) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is relatively certain. It most likely belongs to the word family around HLuw. /sarl(a)i-(di)/ ‘to offer’, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
Because of the use of 〈sà〉 instead of any of the other SA signs and its position after /i/, it is possible (see Rieken 2010b:657) that the second sibilant is palatalised to /ʃ/. If so, that may have obscured the cognate link with /sarl(a)i-(di)/ ‘to offer’ on the phonological level.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned on the basis of the assumed etymological connection with the verb /sarl(a)i-(di)/ ‘to offer’ and is further supported by the context (cf. Yakubovich 2017e:s.v.). In HİSARCIK 1, §5, the author of the inscription appeals to the deity that has been given sacrifices: a-wa/i á-wa/i-´ ha-tu+ra/i-la-´ PUGNUS.PUGNUS-la tu-wa/i-na si-sà+ra/i-li-na ku+ra/i-ti-sá SERVUS-lá/í-na, approx. /a=wa awi hatturala …-la tuwin sisarlin Kurtis hudarlin/, translating as ‘Come on, hold in life your worshipper (and) servant Kurti!’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:483f.).Hawkins’ syntactic analysis of the clause (followed by Hutter 2003a:271) is quite different, however.
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1.1.5Stem
If the assumed connection with /sarl(a)i-(di)/ ‘to offer’ is correct, the present word represents substantivised adjective in /-i(ya)-/, deriving from a reduplicated putative noun */sisarl(i)-/. The word family contains another reduplicated form with the verb /sasarla-(i)/ ‘to offer’; how the different vocalisations of the reduplication syllable relate to one another is not yet clear.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /sarri/.